Dee Flint wrote:

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You are overlooking the digital modes already available, for example,
SSTV and Fax for images. Although not fast, how many pictures of the
same item do you really need immediately for example? It is not going
to be a hardship if it takes a couple of minutes for the image to
transfer rather than a couple of seconds.

Text data (documents, instructions, directions, etc) are easily
handled by error correcting modes now available. Granted these modes
aren't used much but all the sender and recipient have to do is agree
on which mode.

Yes, like the "Model A" built by Ford, time to move up to new standards!
Surely time for the "Model B" anyway!

Depends on how hard up for power you are. In some cases, no problem.
In other cases, power will be so limited that you would only send the
most urgent of messages.

Well if you are that hardup for power, you darn well are NOT going to
let some waste it hammering out CW for EXTENDED periods of time,
transmitting data at LOW speeds or attempting to use voice and wasting
BOTH time AND power!


There are tools that will meet these needs today. They are not as
fast as you would like them to be but they do work.

There are still horses around but I'd rather drive a car ...

To shape the future, we need to understand the abilities of the
present. I'd suggest getting out there and working SSTV (ATV on UHF),

To shape the future we need progressive people to deal with it, the old,
the lame, the outdated, the slow, etc. must be moved aside. However,
when it comes to "antique people" they can be quite stubborn and
difficult to move aside! Gentle force must be applied ...

One can't just wave a magic wand and say "let it be so."

No, and we are working on the changes ... well, some are just arguing
that all is impossible, not worth doing, or is a waste of time ... but
what doesn't have its' "Nay Sayers?"

The future comes ... today it seems one day closer ...

JS